Marjorie Taylor Greene: GOP ‘fear’ blocks bold action voters demand

For over two years, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has been pushing her Republican colleagues on edgy issues including impeaching President Joe Biden and erasing the two impeachments of former President Donald Trump.

But besides supportive words from many GOP influencers, she has been blocked by House leaders despite speaking for a majority of the Republican base, especially those on team MAGA.

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Now, in her autobiography due out next week, MTG is describing what is driving the resistance.

“This is why the Republicans are struggling to get anything done — fear,” she wrote in MTG, her first book.

In a chapter provided to Secrets titled “What is the GOP doing?” Greene said that Republicans are worried that taking bold action will cost them their position and power.

It is, she said, “Fear of consequences. Fear of reprisal. Fear of lost influence. It paralyzes everyone from Republican members of Congress to administrative officials to special office holders to attorney generals. These people are responsible for not doing the right thing, and their inaction costs us all.”

It is a harsh assessment of her colleagues but one she is uniquely qualified to make since owes no one in the House GOP caucus for her position of influence and won reelection with 65.9% of the vote.

For her first two years in Washington, she didn’t even have a committee assignment, banned by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a partisan vote meant to condemn Greene’s past statements. But she wrote in the book published by Winning Team that the experience taught her to speak her mind and leave the consequences to voters.

“When I was kicked off my committees, the Democrat-controlled House was busy passing all of Joe Biden’s ruinous agenda without a hint of resistance. Republicans weren’t getting anything done on committees anyway, and they didn’t care what we had to say. So, even though I was new to politics, I knew that being on a committee as a Republican didn’t matter. I viewed being kicked off my committees as a strange kind of gift — the gift of time,” she said.

Greene used that extra time to sit on the House floor and force roll call votes, not only angering Democrats who were used to quickie voice votes but some Republicans who didn’t want voters to know that they were closet moderates.

She also faced the wrath of liberal voters who were used to getting what they wanted from Democratic-controlled congresses. “As a result of the stand I have taken, I am attacked everywhere I go with the exception of my home district or the red states of the country. Everywhere else, there’s always some random middle-aged, nasty, white woman who is brainwashed by the View and has nothing better to do than say horrible things to me from beneath the mask on her face. And then there are the miserable middle-aged white men, who must hate themselves because they’ve been trained to believe their white skin and male gender is ruining everything, who will walk by me calling me a ‘c**t’ or ‘b**ch,” she wrote.

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Greene said that conservatives in the country are looking for stronger candidates and lawmakers ready to take stands like she has.

“The conservative base is ready; they see the problems and want change. Yet over and over, I and other conservatives fighting for an America-first, MAGA agenda must come home to our districts full of frustration and impotence because the rest of our party won’t get things done,” she wrote in MTG.

Greene added, “Too many important policy decisions and the direction of our country are in the balance right now. From taxes to defeating the trans agenda to holding Biden and his cronies accountable and reining in spending, we must put aside our differences and disappointments to get the right people in office — people who will vote for an America-first agenda, no matter the consequences. It’s time to demand more from the Republican Party because we are the ones who must put the power back in the hands of the American people.”